Definition of Waddle

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waddle
v. walk in a duck-like manner
n. duck-like walk

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Waddle Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Waddle
(v. t.)
To trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through it.
  
(v. i.)
To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles.
  

WordNet 2.0
waddle

Noun
1. walking with a waddling gait; walking with short steps and the weight shifting from one foot to the other
(hypernym) gait
(derivation) toddle, coggle, totter, dodder, paddle

Verb
1. walk unsteadily; "small children toddle"
(synonym) toddle, coggle, totter, dodder, paddle
(hypernym) walk

Anagram
waddle
      dawdle

hEnglish - advanced version
waddle

waddle
\wad"dle\ (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. waddled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. waddling (?).] [freq. of wade; cf. as. w?dlian to beg, from wadan to go. see wade.] to walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles. she drawls her words, and waddles in her pace.
waddle
\wad"dle\, v. t. to trample or tread down, as high grass, by walking through it. [r.]
waddle
n : walking with a waddling gait; walking with short steps and the weight shifting from one foot to the other v : walk unsteadily, as of small children [syn: toddle, coggle, totter, dodder, paddle]




Concise English-Irish Dictionary v. 1.1
waddle
bheith ag lapadán